1976. It takes many forms—words, attitudes, violence. All form br

a picture of a large and growing minority that poses a threat to br

the very existence of the Jewish state—a time bomb ticking br

away. Consider:

•aaaThe majority of the chairmen of Arab local councils in br

Israel—the recognized spokesmen of Israel’s Arabs and the br

touted “moderate” body—on January 20, 1979, approved a res- br

olution “welcoming the struggle of their brethren in the West br

Bank and Gaza Strip against the occupation, annexation, and br

colonialist settlements and expressed their solidarity with the br

struggle of the Palestinian people under the leadership of the br

PLO to establish its independent state.”

•aaaIn the Jerusalem neighborhood of East Talpiot on Novem- br

ber 26, 1979, kindergarten teacher Yael Aviv was playing in a br

small park with the children in her care. Suddenly six Arabs br

appeared, who began throwing stones at the terrified children br

and shouting: “Jews, go home!” A group of young girls across br

the street burst into hysterics and it took an hour to calm them. br

Said the teacher: “I will not take the children there anymore. br

That is enough for me.” Said Sara Graetz, a resident and a sur- br

vivor of the Holocaust: “I would have never believed that this br

could occur in an independent Jewish state.” As this was hap- br

pening, the family of Binyamin Sachar was recovering from an br

attack on their automobile as they drove through the Arab vil- br

lage of Bet Tzafafa, at Jerusalem’s southern edge. Stones br

smashed the windows of the car and a shaken Sachar said: “I br

never thought that here in Jerusalem I would have to worry br

about attacks.”

•aaaThe head of Israel’s northern command, General Avigdor br

Ben-Gal, told an interviewer in the army magazine Bamachane br

(September 1979) that numerous Jewish settlements in the br

Galilee had turned to him with requests for protection from local br

Arabs. The Jews claimed that “they feel themselves isolated and br

asked for Israeli forces to protect them.” Numerous incidents of br

Arab attacks on persons and property were listed. Ben-Gal ap- br

proved the paving of parallel roads to Jewish settlements so that the Jewish br

settlers would not have to pass through Arab villages at night.

•aaa“Lately I hear, even from the most moderate of Arabs, br

open statements such as: ‘Get ready. Soon you will have to move br

out of your house. We will get your house and the houses of all br